About 40 results for ‘Candle’
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Candle
A candle is a solid block or cylinder of wax with an embedded wick, which is lit to provide light, and sometimes heat. Today, most candles are made from paraffin. Candles can also be made from beeswax, soy, other plant waxes, and tallow (a by-product of beef-fat rendering). Gel candles are made from a mixture of mineral oil and a polymer. A candle manufacturer is traditionally known as a chandler. Various devices have been invented to hold candles, from simple tabletop candle holders, to elaborate chandeliers. The heat of the match used to light the candle melts and vaporizes a small amount of fuel. Once vaporized, the fuel combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to form a flame. This flame provides sufficient heat to keep the candle burning via a self-sustaining chain of events: the heat of the flame melts the top of the mass of solid fuel, the liquefied fuel then moves upward through the wick via capillary action, and the liquefied fuel is then vaporized to burn within the candle's flame. The burning of the fuel takes place in several distinct regions (as evidenced by the various colors that can be seen within the candle's flame). Within the blue regions, hydrogen is being separated from the fuel and burned to form water vapor. The brighter, yellow part of the flame is the remaining carbon being oxidized to form carbon dioxide. As the mass of solid fuel is melted and consumed, the candle grows shorter. Portions of the wick that are not emitting vaporized fuel are consumed in the flame. The incineration of the wick limits the exposed length of the wick, thus maintaining a constant burning temperature and rate of fuel consumption. Some wicks require regular trimming with scissors (or a specialized wick trimmer), usually to about one-quarter inch (~0.7 cm), to promote slower, steady burning, and also to prevent smoking. In early times, the wick needed to be trimmed quite frequently, and special candle-scissors, referred to as "snuffers" until the 20th century, were produced for this purpose, often combined with an extinguisher. In modern candles, the wick is constructed so that it curves over as it burns (see picture on the right), so that the end of the wick gets oxygen and is then consumed by fire—a self-trimming wick.
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- Artist(s):
- Pietro della Vecchia
Le Christ aux outrages
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candle
- Executioner
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Cornelis Dusart
Scène d'auberge
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- Artist(s):
- Trophime Bigot
Saint Luc
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candle
- Lighting
- Luke the Evangelist
- Religion
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Démocrite et les Abdéritains,VIII, 26
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- Portrayed subject:
- Book
- Caduceus
- Candle
- Democritus
- Domestic worker
- Hippocrates
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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FRANKLIN : 1706-1790 (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Barrel
- Candle
- Child
- Fabrication
- Sailing ship
- Sea
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Monsieur de la Palisse/8 sujets/15me et 16me couplets (ti...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candle
- Clock
- Sheet music
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre Brébiette
Le cabaret d'enfants
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bar (establishment)
- Bottle
- Candle
- Chair
- Girl
- Gridiron (cooking)
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- Date:
- 17th century
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PROCESSION SOLENNELLE DE N. S. PERE LE PAPE / dans l'égli...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archbishop
- Bishop
- Candle
- Cardinal (Catholicism)
- Clergy
- Crosier
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- Date:
- 19th century
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PROCESSION SOLENNELLE DE N. S. PERE LE PAPE / dans l'égli...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archbishop
- Bishop
- Candle
- Cardinal (Catholicism)
- Clergy
- Crosier
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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MORT DE N.S. LE PAPE PIE.IX. (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archbishop
- Aspergillum
- Bed
- Bishop
- Bucket
- Candle
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- Date:
- 19th century
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MORT DE N.S. LE PAPE PIE.IX. (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archbishop
- Aspergillum
- Bed
- Bishop
- Bucket
- Candle
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BAPTEME DU PRINCE IMPERIAL NAPOLEON-EUGENE-LOUIS-JEAN-JOS...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archbishop
- Baptism
- Candle
- Cardinal (Catholicism)
- Clergy
- Crosier
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- Date:
- 19th century
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QUESTIONS-DEVINETTES : Gr. 9 ... Gr. 12; IMAGERIE D'EPINA...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Basque people
- Beret
- Bird
- Bonnet (headgear)
- Candle
- Cane
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Château-Thierry - Intérieur de l'Eglise - Objets ramassés
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- Field(s):
- Photography
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candle
- Candlestick
- Cane
- Château-Thierry
- Pier (architecture)
- Pulpit
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- Date:
- 20th century
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Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre
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- Portrayed subject:
- Candle
- Card game
- Saint Peter
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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